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Broken Bodies, Places and Objects
Broken Bodies, Places and Objects demonstrates the breadth of fragmentation and fragment use in prehistory and history and provides an up-to-date insight into current archaeological thinking around the topic. A seal broken and shared by two trade parties, dog jaws accompanying the dead in Mesolithic burials, fragments of ancient warships commodified as souvenirs, parts of an ancient dynastic throne split up between different colonial collections... Pieces of the past are everywhere around us. Fragments have a special potential precisely because of their incomplete format – as a new matter that can reference its original whole but can also live on with new, unrelated meanings. Deliberate br...
The Sacred Body
The human body serves as a symbolic bridge between communities of the living and the divine. This is clearly evident in mythological stories that recount the creation of humans by deities within ancient and contemporaneous societies across a very broad geographical environment. In certain circumstances, parts of selected humans can become an ideal proxy for connecting with the supernatural, as demonstrated by the cult of human skulls in Near Eastern Neolithic communities, as well as the cult of relics of Christian saints from the early Christian era. To go deeper into this topic, this volume aims to undertake a cross-cultural investigation of the role played by both humans and human remains in creating forms of relationality with the divine in antiquity. Such an approach will highlight how the human body can be envisioned as part of a broader materialization of religious beliefs that is based on connecting different realms of materiality in the perception of the supernatural by communities of the living.
Viking and Ecclesiastical Interactions in the Irish Sea Area from the 9th to 11th Centuries
Different approaches have been conducted to analyse the interactions of the different belief systems in the early medieval world. This book assesses the relationship between clerics and Scandinavian-influenced laity in the Irish Sea area through the placement of furnished graves at or near ecclesiastical sites in the ninth through the eleventh centuries. Other areas of funerary studies have moved beyond a dichotomy of Christianity and paganism, acknowledging that practices can be multifaceted. Yet, statements regarding Viking Age furnished graves in or near ecclesiastical sites are still not as pervasively open to this line of thinking. To bridge this gap, this book delves into the historiog...
Making Journeys
Despite notable explorations of past dynamics, much of the archaeological literature on mobility remains dominated by accounts of earlier prehistoric gatherer-hunters, or the long-distance exchange of materials. Refinements of scientific dating techniques, isotope, trace element and aDNA analyses, in conjunction with phenomenological investigation, computer-aided landscape modeling and GIS-style approaches to large data sets, allow us to follow the movement of people, animals and objects in the past with greater precision and conviction. One route into exploring mobility in the past may be through exploring the movements and biographies of artifacts. Challenges lie not only in tracing the or...
Vikings Across Boundaries
This volume explores the changes that occurred during the Viking Age, as Scandinavian societies fell in line with the larger forces that dominated the Insular world and Continental Europe, absorbing the powerful symbiosis of Christianity and monarchy, adapting to the idea of royal lineage and supremacy, and developing a buzzing urbanism coupled with large-scale trade networks. Presenting research on the grand context of the Viking Age alongside localised studies, it contributes to the furthering of collaborations between local and ‘outsider’ research on the Viking Age. Through a diversity of approaches on the Viking homelands and the wider world of the Vikings, it offers studies of a ran...
Ask og Emblas barn
Nytt og helhetlig blikk på vikingtiden av en av de største autoritetene på feltet. Tradisjonelt regnes vikingtiden fra år 793, da vikinger angrep klosteret i Lindisfarne, til Harald Hardrådes død ved slaget ved Stamford Bridge i år 1066. I denne boken retter den anerkjente arkeologen Neil Price et nytt blikk på denne oppfatningen. Price viser at vikingenes ekspansjon startet flere generasjoner før Lindisfarne-angrepet, og går århundre tilbake for å finne røttene til fenomenet 'viking'. Ask og Emblas barn er den mest vidtrekkende og komplette samlingen av all kunnskap vi besitter om vikingene i dag. Fortellingen bringer leseren på tvers av hele vikingenes oppland - fra Vinland i...
The Children of Ash and Elm
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'As brilliant a history of the Vikings as one could possibly hope to read' Tom Holland The 'Viking Age' is traditionally held to begin in June 793 when Scandinavian raiders attacked the monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbria, and to end in September 1066, when King Harald Hardrada of Norway died leading the charge against the English line at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. This book, the most wide-ranging and comprehensive assessment of the current state of our knowledge, takes a refreshingly different view. It shows that the Viking expansion began generations before the Lindisfarne raid, and traces Scandinavian history back centuries further to see how these people ...
Copiii Frasinului si ai Ulmului
Neil Price ne invita intr-o calatorie printre povesti, atestari si descoperiri arheologice, pe meandrele unei analize culturale, sociale si politice. Tinand cont de dovezile incomplete, imbinand istoria consacrata si cea netraditionala, autorul introduce cititorul in literatura nordica veche si incurajeaza cu entuziasm lectura acesteia, oferind comentarii (cu elemente speculative si controversate) legate de lumea pre-vikingilor, vikingilor si a diasporei, atat in jurul Marii Nordului, cat si dincolo de ea. ,,Copiii Frasinului si ai Ulmului. O istorie a vikingilor de Neil Price este o relatare cuprinzatoare si captivanta a Epocii vikingilor. Fara a se eschiva niciun moment de faptele violente ale vikingilor, Price are talentul de a intelege detalii prozaice, astfel incat spune o poveste indrazneata a unei societati total diferita de a noastra." (Johanna Katrin Fridriksdottir, History Today)
The Viking Diaspora
The Viking Diaspora presents the early medieval migrations of people, language and culture from mainland Scandinavia to new homes in the British Isles, the North Atlantic, the Baltic and the East as a form of ‘diaspora’. It discusses the ways in which migrants from Russia in the east to Greenland in the west were conscious of being connected not only to the people and traditions of their homelands, but also to other migrants of Scandinavian origin in many other locations. Rather than the movements of armies, this book concentrates on the movements of people and the shared heritage and culture that connected them. This on-going contact throughout half a millennium can be traced in the law...
Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge
This benchmark collection of cross-cultural essays on reproduction and childbirth extends and enriches the work of Brigitte Jordan, who helped generate and define the field of the anthropology of birth. The authors' focus on authoritative knowledge—the knowledge that counts, on the basis of which decisions are made and actions taken—highlights the vast differences between birthing systems that give authority of knowing to women and their communities and those that invest it in experts and machines. Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge offers first-hand ethnographic research conducted by anthropologists in sixteen different societies and cultures and includes the interdisciplinary persp...
